> Here goes pre8: The next one is going to be -rc1 so please don't send me> any more updates and only bugfixes now.

I'd like to suggest again having patches include change logs. The basicidea is for a patch to contain a file like patch.foo in the top-level thatincludes the changelog entry and the maintainer runs a release script thatbuild a changelog by concatenating all the patch.* files and theneither appending them to an actual ChangeLog (preferred) or deletingthem. This would make it much easier for people to know the details ofwhat got fixed without further burdening The Maintainer.

One way to get this started would be to gather up all the existingchange logs, add them to a ChangeLog file, and add a note about the filebeing auto-generated.